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Headword:
*)opisqo/domos
Adler number: omicron,457
Translated headword: Opisthodomos, Backhouse
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A particular part of the acropolis of
Athens, where the treasury was, behind the temple of Athena.[1]
Money used to be put away in it.
Demosthenes in the [speech]
On Organization [writes]: "recently, of course, certain people broke into the Opisthodomos".[2]
*)opisqo/domos: me/ros ti th=s a)kropo/lews tw=n *)aqhnai/wn, e)/nqa h)=n to\ tamiei=on, o)/pisqen tou= th=s *)aqhna=s naou=. e)n w(=| a)peti/qento ta\ xrh/mata. *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| *peri\ sunta/cews: a)ne/w|can dh/pou prw/|hn tine\s to\n o)pisqo/domon.
Notes:
[1] From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Wealth (
Plutus) 1193, where the headword occurs (web address 1).
[2] From Harpokration s.v., quoting
Demosthenes 13.14 (web address 2).
J.M. Hurwit, The Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge 1999) 38 and index s.v.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: architecture; comedy; definition; economics; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 December 2000@06:38:59.
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